Klaus Darga

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Klaus Darga in October 1963
Klaus Darga (1963)
Association GermanyGermany Germany
Born February 24, 1934
Berlin
title International Master (1957)
Grand Master (1964)
Current  Elo rating 2453 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2540 (1971 to 1972)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Klaus Darga Viktor (* 24. February 1934 in Berlin ) is a German grandmaster in chess and former national coach of the German Chess Federation .

Life

Klaus Darga learned the basic rules of chess when he was barely over six years old by watching his father. However, it wasn't until the age of 14 that he began to take seriously chess.

His first tournament was the Berlin Youth Championship in 1949, in which Darga lost the playoff for the title against Paul Bares. In 1951 Darga became the West German youth champion at the age of seventeen. In 1953 he was tied with Óscar Panno with 5.5 points from seven games at the top of the youth world championship , where Panno received the title through the better Sonneborn-Berger fine evaluation and Darga achieved second place. The previous youth world champion Borislav Ivkov was third with 3.5 points. In 1954 and 1959 he won the West Berlin championship , in 1955 in Frankfurt-Höchst before Lothar Schmid and in 1961 in Bad Pyrmont before Wolfgang Unzicker the German championship .

In the 1960s he was one of the strongest German chess players and successfully took part in international tournaments (e.g. Interzonenturnier Amsterdam 1964, Winnipeg 1967). For the 1970 match between the USSR and the rest of the world , Darga was appointed to the world selection, but was not used.

In 1957 Darga became International Master , 1964 Grand Master.

Finally Darga, who had once studied mechanical engineering in Berlin , gave up his professional career in favor of his job as a programmer at IBM .

From 1989 to 1997 he acted - as the successor to Sergiu Samarian and predecessor of Uwe Bönsch - as the national coach of the German national team. At the 1997 Senior World Chess Championship he was the best German. Darga has not played an Elo-rated game since 1999, so he is listed as inactive at FIDE .

National team

Klaus Darga at the 1980 Chess Olympiad in Malta , where he was the captain of the German team.

Between 1954 and 1978 he took part in a total of ten Chess Olympiads for Germany . His greatest success was third place with the team at the 1964 Chess Olympiad in Tel Aviv . Darga also took part in the European Team Championships in 1957, 1961 and 1977 .

Bundesliga

Darga was a top player in the Bundesliga team of VfL Sindelfingen for years . He was last used in the Bundesliga in the 1990/91 season.

Web links

Commons : Klaus Darga  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Engelhardt's Schach-Taschen-Jahrbuch 1956 , p. 94.
  2. ^ German individual youth championships in 1951 in Hamburg
  3. ↑ Entry at BrasilBase , accessed on March 9, 2015
  4. ↑ German individual chess championship 1955 in Höchst on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
  5. ↑ German individual chess championship 1961 in Bad Pyrmont on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
  6. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 89.
  7. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 75.
  8. ↑ Klaus Dargas results at chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  9. ↑ Klaus Dargas results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Darga, Klaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Darga, Klaus Viktor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess player
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin